Table 33, Data Declaration

Ten-Year Arrest Trendsby Sex, 1998-2007

The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

General comments

This 10-year trend table provides the number of males and females arrested in 1998 and 2007 and the percent change when the data for these 2 years are
compared. The table furnishes a breakdown of these data by gender for juveniles (persons under age 18) and adults.

These data represent the number of persons arrested; however, some persons may be arrested more than once during a year. Therefore, the statistics in this
table could, in some cases, represent multiple arrests of the same person.

Methodology

The data used in creating this table were from all law enforcement agencies submitting 12 months of arrest data for both 1998 and 2007.

Population estimation

For the 2007 population estimates used in this table, the FBI computed individual rates of growth from one year to the next for every city/town and county using 2000 decennial population counts and 2001 through 2006 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Each agency’s rates of growth were averaged; that average was then applied and added to its 2006 Census population estimate to derive the agency’s 2007 population estimate.

Population estimates for 1998 are based on the percent change in the state population from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 1997 revised estimates and 1998 provisional estimates.